Improvement in ironing-boards



H. HAMILL Improvement in Ironing-Boards.

No. 131,876.2 Patented oct. 1, 1872.

HUGH HAMILL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMNT IN lRONlNG-BOARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 131,876, dated October1, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HUGH HAMILL, of the city, county, and State of NewYork, have invented an Improvement in Ironing-Boards, of which thefollowing is a specification: This invention consists in the combinationof a shirt-bosom board and a skirt-board so connected that the oneconstitutes a base for the other, and with a hinged standard and prop,whereby the shirt or other garment to be ironed after having beenslipped over the board can be so secured as to obviate all 11ecessityfor holding it by hand, and thereby greatly facilitate the operation ofironing it.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure lis a perspective view of mycombined bosom-board and skirt-board 5 and Fig. 2 is a longitudinalsection of the same, showing the skirt-board 'in two positions.`

Similar letters' of reference indicate correspending parts in bothfigures.

A is the skirt-board, which is of' the usual form, and has hinged to itsupper side near one end a standard, B, by hinges a @which are soconstructed that by simply shifting it l sidewise the said standard maybe detached from the skirt-board. The standard. B, by

means of an attached hoek, l, and an eye, e,

on the skirt-board at the base ofthe standard, may be secured in placeperpendicular t0 the skirt-board A, and it has thebosom-board (l hingedto its forward side by side straps o c and pivots cl ll in such positionthat the upper side of said board, when in position for lwork, t isiiushwith the upper edge of the standard.

The free end of the bosom-board is supported by a prop, D, hinged to itsunder side. The bosom-board may be detached from the skirt- Vboard bysimply unfastening the hook-and-eye catch of its standard and shiftingthe latter sidewise to disconnect the hinges a a. The skirt-board maythen be used in the ordinary manner. When the bosom-board has to'beused, however, it is attached to the skirt-board by means of the hingesa el and hook-and-eye fastening, and the skirt-board forms a base forit. The shirt to be ironed is slipped over and the latter at its freeend is depressed, and its standard is tipped back to make between theman opening, f, shown more particularly in dotted outline in Fig. 2. Thecollar of the shirt is inserted in this opening, and the standard B ofthe bosom-board is then tipped forward and the board itself raised. Theprop D is then adjusted under its free end to retain it in thisposition-the shirt-collarl being thereby griped between the board andstandard and the shirt secured during the operation of ironing it, andthus, by leaving both hands free, facilitating the ironing.

Claim.

The combination and arrangement ofthe bosom-board C, standard B, andhinged prop D, with the skirt-board A, substantially as shown anddescribed, for the'purpose herein specified.

HUGH HAMILL.

Witnesses:

y FRED. HAYNEs, FEED. TUscH.

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